Andreas Wijaya's Blog

Hello Everyone, So it comes to a point where I have a set of data in front of me and I want to render those data in a quick and easy way. I don't like rendering html through code behind because it is just cumbersome and hard to maintain. Also, it is not that simple to display these data because there needs to be some logic when rendering each record. This is where I thought that jsRender would be the perfect thing to use! I have used jQuery template before and  I found it quite useful but they did not continue that project. jsRender is still active in development and it is proved to be much powerful and faster (as it's claimed to be) and fortunately it is very easy to use as well. To cut things short, the sample data looks like this: Entity: CourseOutline Attribute: PathwayId (each CourseOutline can have more than 1 pathway) PathwayLineNo (1-5) EntryPoint (e.g. Year 12) Duration (duration of the Course) Product (this is the Course Product entity with Product Name...

Hello All, I am excited to say that my music website  http://pianoismyfriend.com  has been refurbished and gone live! :) I built the website by myself and it was a really good personal project and it allows me to explore all different kind of tools and technology out there. It surprised me how we can leverage variety of existing services people have to offer without reinventing the wheels these days. Some technical information about the new PianoIsMyFriend website: LightCMS is used as the hosting and the content management provider. I moved away from WordPress because of the maintenance effort comparison and the different goal that I wanted to achieve. My website should be really simple with minimal plugins. I found it hard keeping up-to-date with WordPress versions and updating my plugins that break after updating my WordPress.  With LightCMS I was able to get my website up within a week and focus more into my content and   how it fits together...